August 1: Two of Robert Frost’s most famous poems, “The Road Not Taken” and “Birches,” were first published in The Atlantic on this day in 1915. Frost had recently returned to the U.S. after over two years in England, where his first two collections of poetry had been published and praised. Mountain Interval, Frost’s first collection to be published in America, came out a year later, with “The Road Not Taken” the first poem in the book.
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